How did you vote and why today

Sorry to hear your GC having some difficulties in the playground. I'm afraid it's part of growing up. Kids can be mean at times to each other and the best of friends the next day. If there is bullying then always report it. But it's usual that kids can find it hard at times to find their friendship group. It does take time. Try to ask them to think of 3 things that were good about there day. It can help them re focus on something positive and reassuring to you that there are good things happening in their day. I think you've posted on the politics thread for the day so you might not get a response tonight.

LemonJam

One thing for sure- it's a nuanced voting outcome. All parties of course will put their onward spin on it.

Not that nuanced!
Labour have the worst figures for Council seats in 2026 since records began.
We can’t sugar coat that.

Oreo

Casdon

Oreo

I was talking of England.
The SNP always do really well in Scotland.

But you would surely expect Reform seats in Scotland to reflect a UK wide picture, if they don’t have any or a very small presence, the country will be more divided than ever before, so it is certainly not spectacular in terms of their prospect of forming a UK government.

I didn’t expect them to do much in Scotland tbh as the SNP always take precedence there.
The countries are very different.
According to Sky pundits Reform will do very well in the next GE.
Labour got into power in the last GE with very few winning constituencies in Scotland as the SNP decimated them there some years ago.

Labour got into power in the last GE with very few winning constituencies in Scotland as the SNP decimated them there some years ago.

Completely untrue

Scotland has 57 seats in Westminster Parliament. As of the last GE (2024)

37 of those Scottish MPs are Labour, 9 are SNP, 6 Lib Dem
5 Conservative.

TakeThat7

Reform in the hope that they sort out
things people actually care about I feel like they might actually try to find out what matters to people

What do you think people actually care about? As Reform are allegedly finding out, maybe they could share the outcome of their enquiries with the common people.

I confess I have seen absolutely no indication that Reform has any plan to sort out anything, except lining the pockets of a very few.

Allira

i before e except after K

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Seize the day!

Galaxy

But to the people in Scotswood what Attenborough or Esther Rantzen think is completely irrelevant.

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So people there (wherever it is) care nothing for the wildlife or future of our planet?

Humans are not the only inhabitants of Planet Earth but the only ones who have the ability to destroy it.

GrannyGravy13

Galaxy

Farage will be PM if people keep calling others Nazis.

I think you are correct.

If only people realised that the othering of Reform UK and its supporters is tantamount to handing Nigel the keys to No.10…

They other themselves - they are a limited company, think not declaring financial interests/ gifts applies to everyone but them, attend the House infrequently & walk out en masse (well, all half dozen of them) if someone says something they don't like, claim they're going to do things that sound popular but they know damn well aren't in fact feasible.

I have more respect for Marine Le Penn's lot - their views offend me but they're honestly held & they're not just out for what £££ they & their cronies can get out of politics.

twaddle

Allira

i before e except after K

😁

Seize the day!

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I need caffeine!!

Stuart Spray's piece for Byline Times about Reform and nature:

Nigel Farage’s Plan to Scrap Nature Protections Would Speed ‘Demise’ of UK Countryside

tinyurl.com/mwc35cba

Extract:

At the centre of Reform UK’s policy platform is a pledge to scrap, “with immediate effect”, more than 6,700 retained EU regulations – among them the Habitats Directive, the Birds Directive and long-standing water-pollution controls that form the backbone of Britain’s environmental protections.

Allira

twaddle

Allira

i before e except after K

😁

Seize the day!

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I need caffeine!!

And no K in sight!

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Too late anyway. I wouldn't sleep.

Scotswood is a district in Newcastle upon Tyne; a deprived area.

I actually think that Galaxy is doing what she accuses others of doing; underestimating the intelligence/knowledge of its occupants.

Allsorts

I think people are very worried about illegal immigration and the failure to deal with it.and also the very deprived areas and high crime rates, shop lifting is so common place and affects shoos already struggling.the other thing is very deprived areas and rising crime rates. Its no wonder. People voted Reform. Starmer doesn't listen its as simple as that. I do worry about how Reform will get on as they have no experience of running anything. Starmer has 3 years to do something but he won’t last as he is too blinkered.

So ironic to be saying that Starmer 'doesn't listen' when he spent the first 18months at least of government in trying to out Reform Reform on the matter of immigration. Perhaps no-one was listening to him?

Oreo

I was talking of England.
The SNP always do really well in Scotland.

Shock, horror. There’s more to the UK than England 😁

No I am not underestimating their intelligence. I am commending them! I couldn't care less what Attenborough s views on abortion are either. I am absolutely with Scotswood on that.

No one believed him Maizie, and that wasn't all his fault. It was too late by then.

Wyllow3

Can people please after all this time spell Starmer's name correctly ie Keir not Kier?

Is it just Keir's name you're concerned about or are you equally concerned when people refer to Catherine Princess of Wales as 'Kate', (despite her stated request that her name is Catherine) ?
I'd think Starmer has greater things to worry about than people getting the i and e transposed!

Get rid of Starmer and the Labour Party will rise again. Simples.

nanna8

Get rid of Starmer and the Labour Party will rise again. Simples.

I bet the Labour Party wished it were that simple!

Our local Conservative was returned (at one time we only returned Conservatives) with the Green Party as runners up.

As the areas voting cover large swathes of the pro-Brexit areas I'm really not taking too seriously (as regards how the country would vote) the pro Reform vote. My greatest sadness it's that Reform voters are still ignorant or simplly don't care about what Reform would do to the country and to them - just as Brexit voters were, just as Maga voters were in America.

nanna8

Get rid of Starmer and the Labour Party will rise again. Simples.

Framed by an anti-Starmer voter who hasn't (if I've got the right "nanna") been to this country for many a long year. Not exactly an unbiased or informed view.

Proportional Representation please, if any politician is brave enough.

DaisyAnneReturns

nanna8

Get rid of Starmer and the Labour Party will rise again. Simples.

Framed by an anti-Starmer voter who hasn't (if I've got the right "nanna") been to this country for many a long year. Not exactly an unbiased or informed view.

True DaisyAnne I have no idea why Nanna8 is so uptight about Starmer when she hasn’t lived here for I think she said 50 years and has no intention of ever visiting again because she seems to hold Starmer responsible for the passport controls recent changes.which upset her Apple cart
Nana8 he’s not your problem
Australia has its own problems which I m sure don’t so much effect white people, but the human rights of the true people of Australia has been awful

Back to yesterday’s results, in my area the voting turnout was well under 40% which is truly awful .

Now that’s something your country has right Nana8 isn’t voting obligatory over there ?

Many here aren't keen on Trump and say so often so I dont think it matters if someone abroad has an opinion.

The idea that if Starmer goes it will be is benefit to Labour is of course, correct.
Keir seems totally deaf to what the populace think of him..

Despite these massive losses he still intends to stay. The arrogance is off the scale. He says he won't leave in order to stave off chaos. Unbelievable.

However, as Farage has stated, let him stay. He's a great asset to opposing parties.

REKA

Many here aren't keen on Trump and say so often so I dont think it matters if someone abroad has an opinion.

The idea that if Starmer goes it will be is benefit to Labour is of course, correct.
Keir seems totally deaf to what the populace think of him..

Despite these massive losses he still intends to stay. The arrogance is off the scale. He says he won't leave in order to stave off chaos. Unbelievable.

However, as Farage has stated, let him stay. He's a great asset to opposing parties.

Yet again, the framing says more about the poster than the post says about politics.